245+ Category: Horror Story Prompts
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The Last Breath
Chase a horror story where a mystic proclaims the protagonist will die once they speak their next hundred words.
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Hidden Evils
Journey through a tale where ordinary items are randomly imbued with malevolent sentient spirits.
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Forgotten Reflections
Imagine a character who doesn’t have a reflection and their resultant struggle with their identity.
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Echoing Whispers
Explore a narrative portraying a character who starts receiving cryptic messages, seemingly from their future self.
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Deep Shadows
Write a story about a close-knit community attributing strange occurrences to overlooked superstitions.
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Loyal Guardian
The child knows there’s a monster under their bed; however, they perceive it as their protective guardian against unseen threats.
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Slumber Party Sneak-Attack
At a sleepover, the participants dare each other to face the ‘monster under the bed.’ Unknown to them, it just might be real.
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Under-bed Universe
When Max, the not-so ordinary boy, finds out that there is an entire universe under his bed, his curiosity takes a flight of imagination.
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Nightly Negotiations
Focus on a young character who has come to realize their monster under the bed isn’t so scary. They have regular conversations and negotiations to determine how the monster can best haunt them without it being unbearable.
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Forgotten Memories
You wake up with no memory of who you are or where you’re from, and you must piece it all together.
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Behind the Mask
Craft a narrative where the protagonist’s friendly neighbor is hiding a dreadful secret.
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Dream Journey
Write about a person experiencing vivid, eerie dreams that appear to transport them to an unknown nightmare realm.
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Town’s Dark Secret
Create a story about a newcomer in a small coastal town, gradually uncovering the town’s connection to strange, cosmic entities.
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Voices of the Deep
Write a tale about a marine biologist hearing strange, haunting voices from the deep sea.
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Unseen Madness
Write a story about a person whose sanity is slowly chipped away by visions of an alternate reality.
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Ancient Artifacts
Write about an archeologist discovering an ancient, otherworldly artifact, awakening ancient horrors as a result.
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Terrifying Toy Story
Reimagine a world where sentient toys from Toy Story are not friendly but are rather mysterious and creepy.
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Looney Tunes Labyrinth
Write about an experience where someone gets lost or trapped in the looney tunes world and their adventures take a ghastly turn.
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Pandemonium in Pokémon
Imagine a world where Pokémon aren’t friendly companions or powerful allies, but horrifying, unstoppable beasts.
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Sinister Sesame Street
What if Sesame Street wasn’t a safe and educational haven for children, but a haunted street full of otherworldly terror lurking behind every corner.
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Haunted Hanna-Barbera
Imagine a world where all the lovable Hanna-Barbera characters like Scooby Doo and the Flintstones exist, but in a twisted, nightmarish version.
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Modern Monster
Write about a millennial werewolf trying to juggle a regular job in the city while hiding their true nature.
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Requiem For Humanity
Conceive a story about a man who, after being turned into a werewolf, grapples with the beast within.
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Clown Therapy Gone Wrong
New therapy using clowns to help people overcome their fears backfires dramatically.
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Cursed Comedy Club
A stand-up comedian dons a clown costume for laughs but ends up becoming a deranged killer.
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The Laughing Gas Murderer
Write a detective story featuring a serial killer clown who uses laughing gas as his weapon.
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Cirque Macabre
Imagine a deadly circus comes to town, its main attraction: a clown who collects smiles.
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Silhouette of Shadows
Every full moon, disturbing shadowy figures start appearing throughout the town causing unexplained incidences.
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Lost in the Fog
A small coastal town is suddenly plagued by an unending, eerie fog which seems to have a mind of its own.
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Nighthawks’ Nest
A sudden increase in the population of ominous birds in a quiet mountaintop town invites dreadful consequences.
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Aberrant Harvest
Write about a small farming town whose bountiful harvest suddenly takes an unsettling twist.
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Dark Side of Teleportation
Write about a world where teleportation exists, but with a horrifying cost.
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Supernatural Alien Entity
Describe the tale of an alien being that can shape-shift into people’s worst fears.
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Nightmare of the Time Traveler
Your protagonist can time travel, but every time they do, they see horrifying premonitions.
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Malfunctioning AI
Write a story in which an artificial intelligence system starts behaving inexplicably.
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The Immortal Garden
Craft a story about an immortal gardener tending to a bewitched garden at an abandoned cathedral.
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Possession in the Manor
Write a story about a small village where every full moon, one villager is chosen to be possessed by a local Manor’s past inhabitant.
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The Crimson Portrait
Describe an old crimson-colored portrait that seems to change behavior and appearance by night.
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Lost in the Cemetery
Describe a lost traveler’s journey navigating an abandoned, foggy cemetery at midnight.
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Haunting Castle Mystery
Write about a protagonist who inherits an old castle and discovers it’s haunted by a troubled spirit.
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The Forgotten Diary
Write a story around a diary which documents seemingly harmless daily tasks linked with a chilling undercurrent.
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The Silent Neighbor
Your journey begins with moving into a new neighborhood and noticing unusual behavior from your next-door neighbor.
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Grocery Store Ghosts
Venture into the horror of the mundane by conjuring up supernatural occurrences at the local grocery store.
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Hidden Rooms In Plain Sight
Create a story centered around an ordinary object in your home that holds a terrifying secret.
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Nocturnal Haunting
Script a chilling account of a sleepwalker who behaves oddly under the influence of a ghost.
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Voice from the Void
Write about a spiritual medium who starts receiving disturbing messages for their clients.
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Spectral Shadows
Pen a horror tale about a haunted mansion, where the ghosts are not malevolent but plagued by their own horrifying stories.
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Synthetic Nightmare
Narrate a story about a character who decides to replace their organic body parts with synthetic ones, but things go horrifically wrong.
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Revenge of The Organs
Write about a world where body parts gain sentience and start to rebel against their owners.
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Parasitic Proliferation
Conjure a narrative where a seemingly harmless insect bite turns into a full-blown parasite infestation under the skin.
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Unsettling Symbiosis
Create a story centered around a character who discovers an alien organism living inside them.
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Sanctuary in Ruins
Amidst a zombie apocalypse, a group of survivors has created a safe haven, but it’s now under threat.
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Reliving Monstrosity
A character remembers their family member getting infected and turning into a zombie.
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Humanity’s Last Hope
Imagine a world with a zombie apocalypse, where one character holds the secret to saving humanity.
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Survivor’s Guilt
Write about a character who is the only one to survive an attack in a zombie apocalypse.
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Malevolent Mirages
After various failed attempts to escape a deserted island, your character starts seeing mirages of your deeply feared past, which grow increasingly menacing.
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Echoes of the Past
A historian is stranded on an uncharted island that was once the site of a brutal, forgotten war, and the ghosts of soldiers still roam its lonely beaches.
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The Insidious Island
Your character wakes up on an island with no memory of how they arrived there, but strange events lead them to realize that the island itself is sentient – and malevolent.
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Paradise’s Dark Secret
As a survivor of a shipwreck washed ashore a beautiful yet uninhabited island, discover the horrifying reason why all its previous inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared.
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Island of Forgotten Souls
Imagine you are marooned on a seemingly deserted island only to find out it is populated by the spectral remains of past castaways.
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Last Person Standing
Write a story about someone who wakes up one day to discover they’re the only person left in their town or city.
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Escalating Dread
Write a story about a character slowly realizing that something eerie is happening before the horror is fully revealed.